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Re: If I Wrote X-Men Forever
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No offense but even the most diehard agree that more X-Men teams are bad, it waters down the franchise. I was happy when the exploits of the team were back down to just two books, Uncanny and Astonishing, and was dismayed to learn they were restarting not just an X-Force book, but a New Mutants one as well -- both with vastly different contexts to the originals. Plus I hated it when the forced Excalibur to switich from the guardians of our dimention to the "British X-Men," it was an editorial decision that killed that book.
Incidentally, if the original post refers to the current ongoing series X-Men Forever by Chris Claremont, I must vent for a moment. After thumbing through several issues, I just have to say that that particular series is an absolutely abysmal "sour grapes" series and a slap in the face to anyone who enjoyed the stories post October 1991.
Now I know on this board, most people don't like X-Men past about 1986 or so, but when Lobdell and Niscieza took over, they didn't do a terrible job, and some of the tales -- for instance The X-Cutioner's Song, Bloodties, Fatal Attractions and the Legacy Virus/AIDS parallels -- were quite good compared to what else was happening at Marvel at the time *cough*Clone Saga*cough*teen Tony*. That being said, the B*LLS on Claremont nearly 18 years later to say "Oh, what Lobdell and Nicieza wrote was crap, here's what I would have done." Claremont, you've got to stop living in the past. Do you think Enghlehart and Stern and David and Simonson and Conway and Michilinie and Layton and DeFalco are saying to themselves "The last 20 years are crap, why don't I write an alt-universe retcon story that doesn't fit in with established continuity?" NO! They handed the reigns over to the next storytellers, the Lobdells and Nicieza, the Loebs, Waids, Jenkins, Caseys, Kellys, Brubakers, Fractions, Paks and yes, Bendises -- and then went about looking for their next tale to tell.
The exception to this is of course Byrne and Busiek, but there's a difference: Bynre and Busiek are giving us new info on established tales, while Claremont is simply saying "those who followed me didn't live up to what I did." Whether that's true or not, it's not your concern. There have been at least 10 new X-Men writers since you've left -- off the top of my head, Lobdell, Nicieza, Waid, Kelly, Seagle, Davis, Morrison, Casey, Austen, Milligan, Whedon, Brubaker, Carey, Fraction and Ellis. Not all, but most have written compelling, interesting, and well received stories. There is no need of a "do-over."
I say let it be.
Why can't they just let her have her imaginary babies and her robot husband? Look what happens when she doesn't!
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